raise your eyebrows Idioma
raise eyebrows
raised eyebrows
raise (one's) eyebrows
We all raised our eyebrows when we heard that two young men had beaten a tiger to death barehanded．当听到两个年轻人赤手空拳打死一只老虎时，我们不禁为之愕然。
The news that the princess was engaged to a commoner raised eyebrows all over the kingdom．公主与平民订婚的消息使全王国为之震惊。
raise some eyebrows
Idiom(s): raise some eyebrowsTheme: SURPRISE
to shock or surprise people mildly (by doing or saying something). (Some can be replaced with a few, someone's, a lot of, etc.)
• What you just said may raise some eyebrows, but it shouldn't make anyone really angry.
• John's sudden marriage to Ann raised a few eyebrows.
cause some eyebrows to raise
Idiom(s): cause (some) eyebrows to raiseTheme: SHOCK
to shock people; to surprise and dismay people.
• John caused eyebrows to raise when he married a poor girl from Toledo.
• If you want to cause some eyebrows to raise, just start singing as you walk down the street.
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v. phr. To do something that causes consternation; to shock others. When Algernon entered Orchestra Hall barefoot and wearing a woman's wig, he caused eyebrows to raise.raise eyebrows|eyebrow|eyebrows|raise
v. phr. To shock people; cause surprise or disapproval. The news that the princess was engaged to a commoner raised eyebrows all over the kingdom.cause raised eyebrows
cause raised eyebrowsAlso, raise eyebrows. Cause surprise or disapproval, as in At school his purple hair usually causes raised eyebrows. This transfer of a physical act (raising one's eyebrows) to the feelings it may express took place in the early 1900s. Lytton Strachey used the term in The Eminent Victorians (1918): “The most steady-going churchman hardly raises an eyebrow at it now.”
raise (one's) eyebrows
1. To lift one's eyebrows in a affectation of shock, surprise, or offense. She aloft her eyebrows at the idea, but afterwards I went through the capacity of the plan, she was agreed to abutment it.2. To arm-twist shock, surprise, or offense, about through anarchistic accomplishments or words. The byword about suggests abrogating absorption or judgment. Her aweless babble during the commemoration aloft abounding people's eyebrows. Sarah's blush beard absolutely aloft a few eyebrows, but if she brand it, again that's all that matters.Learn more: eyebrow, raiseraise your eyebrows (or an eyebrow)
appearance surprise, disbelief, or balmy disapproval.Learn more: eyebrow, raiseraise your ˈeyebrows (at something)
show, by the announcement on your face, that you blame of or are afraid by something: Eyebrows were aloft back he accustomed at the bells in jeans. ♢ When he said he was leaving, there were a lot of aloft eyebrows.Learn more: eyebrow, raise
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